[CBW_Exec] CBW_Exec Digest, Vol 14, Issue 3

[Meyersalan@aol.com]

Hi All,

I look forward to our getting together, first on Wednesday, and then at the 
board meeting. Truman, like most places, is facing a financial cruch, so we had 
to abort our search to hire one more full time faculty member. Our department 
membership is now down to 18, from a high of 42 in 1990. But we're soldiering 
on, with a great many developmental classes being taught in studio 
classrooms, continuing our combined six-hour reading and writing developmental classes, 
and our department wide portfolio assessment, which stresses summary response 
and incorporation of source material in essays. 

On another note, as Director of Assessment, I'm busy moving ahead with the 
college's General Education Portfolio project, which assesses our general 
education goals through committees reading 50 papers for each goal taken from upper 
division courses and judged through weighted rubrics. we plan to extend the 
project to first-year courses next year and developmental the year following. 
It's pretty exciting.

Cordially,

Alan


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